Horns of a Dilemma

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It could be a motion in a school debating competition. If you could raise a million dollars towards saving an endangered species by killing a bit of it, should you pull the trigger?

In the case of the black rhinoceros, almost certainly not. In the wild, around 4,800 remain, and the Dallas Safari Club hopes to shoot one of them. Beforehand, it plans an auction, to raise money for local efforts to stop other people doing the same.

Distaste is natural. What sort of person wants to shoot a rhino? Wayne Pacelle, the President of the Humane Society of the